Musk nailed it: In comments made at the Oval Office last night (as his little son hung out next to him and mimicked his hand gestures), Elon Musk made clear that he intends to not only slash the overgrown federal bureaucracy but also force people in government to actually confront the massive federal deficit.
"If the bureaucracy's in charge, then what meaning does democracy actually have?" asked Musk. "If the people cannot vote and have their will be decided by their elected representatives in the form of the president and the Senate and the House, then we don't live in a democracy, we live in a bureaucracy. So it's incredibly important that we close that feedback loop, we fix that feedback loop, and that the public's elected representatives—the president, the House, and the Senate—decide what happens, as opposed to a large, unelected bureaucracy. This is not to say that there are not good people who are in the federal bureaucracy, but you can't have an autonomous federal bureaucracy. You have to have one that's responsive to the people."
A moment later, Musk turned his attention to the deficit:
